Robert fletcher



Patented Sept. l3, I898.

R. FLETCHER.

STOVE.

(Application filed. Mar. 8, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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ROBERT ELETonER, OF TORONTO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO AMOS HARRING- TON, OF SAME PLACE.

STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 610,581, dated September 13, 1898.

Application filed March 3,1898. Serial No. 672,363. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it Wmy concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT FLETCHER, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to a cheap, light, portable, and convenient stove for the combustion or use of charcoal especially and intended'for camping, yachting, and kindred uses, and in northern latitudes it is desirable for domestic use in the summer season.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in which similar numbers of reference refer to similar parts throughout, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved stove, having one of the lids removed and a portion of the top broken away to show the interior construction; and Fig. 2 represents a vertical section on a diametrical line from front to rear to more fully illustrate its construction.

My improved stove is constructed of rolled sheet-iron preferably, similar to that generally employed in the manufacture of stovepipes for ordinary cast-iron stoves and ranges, and the ways and means of making joints or seams in sheet metals in such articles being well known need not be described.

The body of the stove, lids, and fire-pots are preferably round or circular in form, as shown, and three fire-pots are employed; but small stoves, where desirable, having one or two fire-pots may be used; but in each and every size the stove has an outer casing 1, having a top 2 and bottom 3, secured thereon, and upper and lower decks 1 and 5, respectively, within said casing 1. In the top 2 are circular openings to admit the lids 6, which are flanged to rest on the top 2, and they have also a deep rim 7, each to cover the fire-pots 8, one of whichis located directly under each lid 6, so that when desired any fire-pot 8 can be closed off and not useds The upper deck 4 is located close to the top 2, as shown, so that the fire-pots 8 supported by it are near pots, pans, or other vessels placed over the lid-openings. A bolt 9 at the center secures the top 2 and upper deck 1 rigidly together by the assistance of a post 10,, constructed of a piece has the sides or periphery closed, a perforated bottom 12, and at its moutha fiange13, by which it is supported; The lower deck 5 I of tube inclosing said bolt 9 and resting at 1 serves as an ash-pan and is about the same distance from the bottom 3 that the upper deck 1 is from the top 2. In the casing 1 and near its lower extremity a series of holes 14 admit of circulation of air between the lower deck 5 and the bottom 3, thereby keeping the bottom 3 cool and protecting anything supporting the stove from being damaged by heat.

At the rear portion of the top 2 a thimble 15 is secured, to which pipes may be attached when used in camping and yachting. Beneath the thimble 15 and extending through the upper and lower decks 4E and 5, respectively,

and the bottom 3 is a pipe 16, covered by a removable cap 17, which is removed and placed into the top of the thimble 15 when the stove is used in summer season for domestic use by placing it over an opening in an ordinary cooking stove or range and using it by the downdraft. (Shown by dotted arrows in Fig. 1 of drawings.) The placing and removing said cap 17 is accomplished by removing one of the rear lids 6. In the casing 1 and at the front thereof, as shown, is provided a sliding door 18, secured by slides 19, attached to the casing 1, and by this door the supply of air or the draft thereof is regulated.

Although designed particularly for the use of charcoal as fuel, satisfactory results are obtainable with both hard and soft coal.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In combination, in a stove, an outer casing having openings in the top thereof, firepots arranged below said openings, draft-passages communicating with said fire-pots, and tops adapted to cover said openings and close the communications between said pots and draft-passages, substantially as described.

2. In combination, the outer casing having openings in the top thereof, a deck arranged below said opening forming a draft-passage between the same and the top of the casing,- fire-pots supported by said deck opening into said draft-passages and tops fitted to said openings in the stovetop having depending tween the said passage and the part of the flue extending above or below said passage, substantially as described.

4. In combination, the casing, the upper and lower decks, the fire-pots supported by the upper deck having perforations therein, said casing having an opening in the front thereof communicating with the space between the bottom of said pots and the lower deck, a vertical flue extending through the rear of the stove, the space between the upper deck and the top of the stove communicatin g with the intermediate part of said flue, and a cap adapted to close said flue below the upper space to cause a downdraft in said fine, or to close said flue below the passage to cause an updraft therein, substantially as described.

ROBERT FLETCHER. \Vitnesses:

MARY REID, A. D. CARTWRIGHT. 

